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Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/wʔeɬkwene
Proto-Algic
Alternative forms
- *wʔeθkwene
- *wʔeɬkwane, *wʔeθkwane
Etymology
The initial w- either is the third-person prefix *w-, or came to be re-analysed as it. Compare *wʔeθkan.
Noun
*wʔeɬkwene
- liver
Descendants
- Yurok: 'wrhlkun (“liver”)
- Wiyot: watwar (“liver”)
- Algonquian: *-θkweni (“liver”)
References
- Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic IV: Nouns, in Studies in Native American Languages VII, volume 17, number 2 (1992)